12-letter words that end in ter
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
- games master — a man who teaches games and sports in a school
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
- golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
- goofy-footer — a surfboard rider or snowboarder who stands with the right foot forward instead of the left foot forward
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
- grass cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
- greek-letter — designating or of a student fraternity or sorority whose name is designated by a combination of Greek letters
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
- harmonometer — the equipment used for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- home theater — big-screen TV setup
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- in character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- inclinometer — Aeronautics. an instrument for measuring the angle an aircraft makes with the horizontal.
- interchapter — a short chapter in a book that occurs between two major chapters
- intercluster — relating to, occurring, or situated between two or more clusters
- interlocuter — A person who participates in a conversation.
- irish setter — one of an Irish breed of setters having a golden-chestnut or mahogany-red coat.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- isoperimeter — a figure whose perimeter is equal to that of another.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- katharometer — (science) A device used for analyzing gas mixtures by measuring their thermal conductivity.
- kick starter — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
- kitty litter — litter (sense 4)
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- last quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
- lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
- lily-trotter — jaçana.
- line printer — a printer that produces an entire line of output at a time.
- lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.